The main argument is the path to a bitstream image of a disk or partition. RecuperaBit automatically determines the sectors from which partitions start. RecuperaBit does not modify the disk image, however it does read some parts of it multiple times through the execution. It should also work on real devices, such as /dev/sda but this is not advised.Optionally, a save file can be specified with -s . The first time, after the scanning process, results are saved in the file. After the first run, the file is read to only analyze interesting sectors and speed up the loading phase. Overwriting the save file can be forced with -w . RecuperaBit includes a small command line that allows the user to recover files and export the contents of a partition in CSV or body file format. These are exported in the directory specified by -o (or recuperabit_output ). Pypy RecuperaBit can be run with the standard cPython implementation, however speed can be increased by using it with the Pypy interpreter and JIT compiler:

pypy main.py /path/to/disk.img

Recovery of File Contents Files can be restored one at a time or recursively, starting from a directory. After the scanning process has completed, you can check the list of partitions that can be recovered by issuing the following command at the prompt:

recoverable

Each line shows information about a partition. Let's consider the following output example:

If you want to recover files starting from a specific directory, you can either print the tree on screen with the tree command (very verbose for large drives) or you can export a CSV list of files (see help for details). If you rather want to extract all files from the Root and the Lost Files nodes, you need to know the identifier for the root directory, depending on the file system type. The following are those of file systems supported by RecuperaBit:

File System Type

Root Id

NTFS

5

The id for Lost Files is -1 for every file system.Therefore, to restore Partition #0 in our example, you need to run: